This paper reflects on a two-year EU funded
specific research targeted project that officially began
in January 2004 entitled COSPA, a Consortium for
studying, evaluating and supporting the introduction of
Open Source ...

In recent years there has been a rapid increase in demand for e-learning
systems. The software development process plays a crucial role in the design and
development of a high-quality e-learning system. However, to date, ...

This paper addresses the open source software
(OSS) phenomenon from an industry perspective and reveals
a number of complexities surrounding the role of OSS in the
secondary software sector. It presents the research ...

Much of the assessment of OSS benefits and drawbacks has been
based on anecdotal evidence appearing in practitioner publications, white
papers, web articles etc. To a greater extent this research has tended to
concentrate ...

CALIBRE (Co-ordination Action for Libre Software)l,
a EUR I.S million EU-funded project which aims to revolutionise
how European industry leverages software and
services, was officially launched on Friday 10 September
2004 ...

Content analysis is a useful approach for analyzing
unstructured software project data, but it is labor-intensive and
slow. Can automated text classification (using supervised machine
learning) be used to reduce the ...

Component-Based Software Development has become a popular
approach to building software intensive systems. Besides using
Commercial Off-The-Shelf components, an organization may
choose to use Open Source Software ...

There has been a dramatic increase in commercial interest in the potential of Open Source Software (OSS) over the past few years. However, given the many complex and novel issues that surround the use of OSS,
the process ...

Context: Several large software-developing organizations have adopted Open Source Software development (OSSD) practices to develop in-house components that are subsequently integrated into products.
This phenomenon is ...

The use of Open Source Software (OSS) components has become a viable alternative to Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components in product development. Since the quality of OSS products varies widely, both industry and the ...

In recent years, open source software - more properly, free and open source software - has emerged as one popular solution to the so-called "software crisis". Advocates regard F/OSS as an agile, practice-led initiative ...

Open innovation is a paradigm that proposes that firms can and should use external as well as internal innovations/ideas. A popular example of open innovation has been open source software (OSS). The key issues facing ...

Up to now, most open source software (OSS) deployments have been in invisible infrastructure applications running on back-office servers (GNU/Linux, Apache, and so on). Beaumont Hospital in Ireland recently started developing ...

It has been lately established that a major success or failure factor of
an OSS project is whether or not it involves a commercial company, or more extremely,
when a project is managed by a commercial software corporation. ...

Open Source Software (OSS) has become the subject of much commercial interest of late. Certainly, OSS seems
to hold much promise in addressing the core issues of the software crisis, namely that of software taking too
long ...

Peer production phenomena such as open source software (OSS) have been posited as a viable alternative to traditional production models. However, community-based development often falls short of creating software
“products” ...

Much of the assessment of OSS benefits and drawbacks has been based on anecdotal evidence appearing in practitioner publications. Due to its focus on software development, such work neglects whether managerial perceptions ...

Open Source Software (OSS) is increasingly used in product development. Besides some much-reported benefits of this approach, using OSS products also presents new challenges. One such challenge is identifying relevant, ...